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AOL worked actively to stop third-party AIM clients in the same ways as mentioned above from icq through WhatsApp -- changing protocols and central auth mechani

AOL worked actively to stop third-party AIM clients in the same ways as mentioned above from icq through WhatsApp -- changing protocols and central auth mechanisms. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/aol.vsms.idg/index.html http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06/aol.vsms.idg/index... http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/24/business/fi-59086 http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jul/24/business/fi-59086

thaumasiotes 10y ago
Right, the point is "whatsapp is hostile to third-party clients" makes no sense as an explanation of why we don't have third-party clients for whatsapp, because all third-party clients for everything have had to deal with hostility from the first party.